Fall Flashbacks

Autumn brought beautiful weather, special guests and a whole lot of learning. We compiled our favorite shots from last semester to bring you this photographic flashback. (Photography: Communications...

UNH Research: Helmetless-Tackling Drills Significantly Reduce Head Impact

The national debate around football-related head impacts, and their relationship to concussions and spinal injuries, continues to raise concern in the United States. Sparked by efforts to help make...

Sweet Stuff

With no thumbs, constructing a large building is tough. But Wild E. Cat pulled through with some help from his friends at UNH Conferences & Catering. Watch them build a gingerbread replica of...

Finkelhor’s Fineness

David Finkelhor says one of the achievements of social science is that it has helped increase awareness about the different kinds of threats to children, which has led to reduced rates of physical,...

Capital Opportunities

Offshore Discoveries

From solar panel installation to marine animal research, the Shoals Marine Lab is where students become scientists.

Psych Success

Katie Edwards received the 2015 Outstanding Assistant Professor Award at the annual faculty excellence ceremony recently. Edwards is director of the Interpersonal Violence Research Laboratory in the...

Get In the Flow

Step inside the UNH flow physics facility, the world’s largest boundary layer wind tunnel.  

The Public Service Privilege

Joanne Curran Celentano received the 2015 Award for Excellence in Public Service at the annual faculty excellence ceremony on Oct. 15. Curran Celentano is professor of molecular, cellular and...

Public Health Prowess

Rosemary Caron received the 2015 Outstanding Associate Professor Award at the annual faculty excellence ceremony on Oct.15. The award recognizes Caron’s prodigious accomplishments in teaching,...

Island Time

Each summer, four college students spend the summer on Appledore Island as sustainable engineering interns for the UNH/Cornell University Shoals Marine Laboratory. It’s the ultimate win-win: The...

No Card Required

Lunch time! Students enter Holloway Commons using one of the new biometric scanners.

Filling the STEM Pipeline

Three sessions of UNH Tech Camp provided the opportunity to build and

Instrumentalists

For the past 42 years, professionals and amateurs from across the world have attended the five-week Violin Craftsmanship Summer Institute on the University of New Hampshire campus, where world-...

On the Rebound

It may have ended with a loss, but the 2014-15 season was one big win for the men’s basketball program. The team finished the year with a 19–13 overall record, matching a program-best set 20 years...

Sport and Support

With teams that perennially perform at or near the top of numerous national measures of academic success, UNH has long emphasized the student in student-athlete. And now, there’s a dedicated space on...

Strong Bonds

Margaret “Peg” Whittemore found chemistry at Portsmouth High School. It was 1941, her senior year, and she had just moved to New Hampshire from Newton, Mass. Two things helped her adjust to the move...

Completing Her Journey

In the weeks leading up to her UNH graduation, Verna Boudreau, just like her fellow members of the class of 2015, was wading through a flurry of Commencement-related emails — where to pick up caps...

One to Watch

If you were anywhere near Durham the day of commencement in May, you may have heard some loud chanting among the speeches and applause of the joyous occasion. That was Peter Wilkinson, leading the...

Crew Boss Rachel Rawlinson Named Northeast Region Coach of the Year

Rachel Rawlinson '99, head coach of UNH Rowing, was named the Northeast Region Coach of the Year by the American Collegiate Rowing Association at its national championship regatta May 23 -24 in...

Staged for Success

Brianne Kennedy '15 carried a sunflower and a smartphone when she took the stage to sing the national anthem at UNH’s commencement earlier this month. She brought the smartphone because it stored her...

UNH Student Headed to Rwanda on Boren Scholarship

Ross Conroy '17 of Berwick, Maine, has received a Boren Scholarship to study in Rwanda during the 2015-16 academic year. The junior political science and international affairs dual major and member...

Four Alumnae Fetch Fulbrights

Four University of New Hampshire alumnae have been offered Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants.

Ph.D. Student Receives National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

Meagan Wengrove ‘10, a Ph.D. student in ocean engineering from Arvada, Colorado, has received a prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship from the U.S....

A Taste of a Future Career

Each semester, students taking the advanced food and beverage management class at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics plan and execute a gourmet dining experience for the university...

Grad Students Receive Prestigious NSF Fellowships

Three UNH students have received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, one of the nation’s premier national science, math, engineering and technology (STEM) scholarship...

Making Things Glow

Kira Rasmussen '17 and Jacqueline Sullivan '17 are waiting for the chemical mixture they’ve just heated to 105 degrees to cool. Their test tubes are snug in ice baths to speed the process. Rasmussen...

UNH Milk: It Does a Body Gold

Among the many student, faculty and alumni achievements chronicled throughout the pages of this and other UNH Magazine editions, it’s important to note that sometimes, the school’s dairy cows need a...

Sweet Dream

Devoted to the Nth Degree

To say Yitang “Tom” Zhang is a math whiz might be the understatement of the century. His 2014 breakthrough on the twin prime conjecture caught the attention of number theorists worldwide as well as...

Out of the Clinic, Out of the Box

As part of her training to become a practicing occupational therapist, Risa LaPera ’14,’15G talks to her client Dan, a retiree with vision loss due to glaucoma, through a radio headset. “You still...

Need More Cowbell? Meet the Cat Pack Captains

You’ve seen them in the Dungeon. You’ve heard the tut-tut-tut of their cowbell in Lundholm and at the Whit. Now go behind the scenes with the proudest, rowdiest, most-whiskered cats in the pack – the...

Football's Future

 

Crystal Clear Volunteers

It’s a good bet that the kids romping around Ellacoya State Park, the owner of a $49 million lakeside estate and even The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon share something in common when it comes to what...

Buried in Style

No one likes to think about their own mortality, especially the details of their funeral. But visiting artist Eric Adjetey Anang showed a group of UNH art and art history students that in his home...

Hospitality Management Test Drive

High school seniors considering a career in the hospitality management industry got a head start on their resumes this summer during the Hospitality Management Summer Program at the UNH Peter T. Paul...

Marine Biology Bootcamp

It was an early move-in for a group of first-year UNH students who packed their bags and boarded a boat headed for Marine Immersion week at the Shoals Marine Lab. Marine Immersion is an intensive,...